North

North is the 1,837th most common surname in the United States, shared by 19,164 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 15,600.

By the numbers

People: 19,164
Rank: 1,837th
How common: 1 in 15,600
Per 100,000: 6.4

Where the name comes from

By proprialization from north. The English surname is also translated from other surnames of the same meaning, such as Irish Mac an Ultaigh (“son of the Ulsterman”), Ulster being the northern part of Ireland.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname North described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 82.0%
Black, not Hispanic 9.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called North

Douglass North (1920–2015)American economist and Nobel laureate
Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford (1732–1792)Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782
Jade North (born 1982)Australian footballer
Marianne North (1831–1890)English philanthropist, painter, biologist and botanical artist
Nolan North (born 1970)American voice actor
Peter North (born 1957)Canadian pornographic actor
Oliver North (born 1943)American political commentator
Alex North (1910–1991)American composer

People named North with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like North

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.